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The Open-Weather Community Nowcast: Collaborative Global Weather Satellite...
Earlier in the year we posted about Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer's work in creating an artistic performance based on weather satellite reception with SDRs. They have also since posted tutorials...
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio with RTL-SDR
Over on his blog F4GOH has posted a rather comprehensive tutorial consisting of seven PDF documents showing how he's set up his Raspberry Pi for ham radio and other RF projects. The PDF's essentially...
View ArticleDragonOS: KerberosSDR Bearing Server Setup with RDFMapper
DragonOS is a ready to use Linux OS image that includes many SDR programs preinstalled and ready to use. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel that has multiple tutorial videos demonstrating...
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33% OFF Sale: Ultra Stable Bullseye LNB for QO-100/Es’Hail-2
Back in May we started selling the Othernet Bullseye LNB on our store, which is an ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites/applications. We have recently managed to secure a...
View ArticleGraphing Data from a Weather Station via RTL-SDR and Home Assistant
Over on YouTube user mostlychris has uploaded a helpful tutorial video show how to use an RTL-SDR to collect data coming from a personal weather station and graph it on the home automation software...
View ArticleTesting Sharp Slicer: Multiple Spectrum Slices via SDR# with an Airspy SDR
Youssef the author of SDR# has recently released an update which adds a feature called "Sharp Slicer". This feature allows Airspy SDR users to open multiple instances of SDR#, each able to tune to a...
View ArticleThe SETI Institute and GNU Radio Join Forces
The institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and GNU Radio are joining forces. SETI are an organization that uses radio telescopes to search for radio signals that may have...
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John’s Windows 10 NOAA Weather Satellite Software Guide for RTL-SDR
Thank you to John First for submitting his guide all about the setup and use of the software required to receive NOAA weather satellite images on Windows 10 (pdf file) with an RTL-SDR dongle. John's...
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Decoder for Geostationary Elektro-L Weather Satellites Released
Elektro-L is a range of Russian geostationary weather satellites. Elektro-L1 and L2 were launched in 2011 and 2015 respectively, and Elektro-L3 was launched more recently in December 2019. Currently...
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Sanchez Updates: Combine Weather Images from GK-2A, Himawari-8, GOES 16/17...
Back in August we posted about the release of Sanchez, a tool originally designed to apply a color underlay image to grayscale infrared images received from geostationary weather satellites such as...
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Microwave Humidity Sounder Decoder for the NOAA-19 Satellite Released
Back in June we posted about the release of Zbigniew Sztanga's NOAA-HIRS-Decoder which can decode HIRS instrument data which measures the vertical temperature profile of the Earth's surface. This HIRS...
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Bullseye TCXO LNB for QO-100 33% Off Sale Ending Soon
On September 15 we began our 33% off stock reduction sale for the Bullseye LNB. The Bullseye is an ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites/applications. We'll be ending this...
View ArticleTracking RTL-SDR Passive Radar Detections with a Kalman Filter
Back in January we posted about Max Manning's work about building a passive radar system out of two RTL-SDR dongles modified to share the same local oscillator. He's recently extended this code, adding...
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SDR Sharp Slicer Now Supports RTL-SDR and other SDRs
Youssef, Author of the SDR# software has recently updated SDR#, now extending the Sharp Slicer functionality which we posted about earlier to RTL-SDR and other supported software defined radios. The...
View ArticleConference Talk on PICTOR A Free-to-Use Open Source Radio Telescope based on...
At this years FOSDEM 2020 conference Apostolos Spanakis-Misirlis has presented a talk on his PICTOR open source radio telescope project. We have posted about PICTOR in the past [1, 2] as it makes use...
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Simple APCO P25 Phase 1 Decoder Plugin Released for SDR#
Vasili, author of several SDR# plugins has recently released a new APCO P25 plugin for SDR#. The plugin is easy to use, simply tune to a P25 voice signal, and it will automatically decode it into voice...
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Using an RTL-SDR to Measure the Basis for the Dark Matter Hypothesis
From calculations depending on the distribution of visible star mass in our galaxy, a certain galactic rotational velocity vs distance from center curve is expected. However, when scientists actually...
View ArticleTech Minds: Portable RTL-SDR on Android
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has recently released a new video demonstrating how to use an RTL-SDR portably via an Android tablet and an OTG cable. In the video he goes through the various...
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Sanchez Scripting Examples For Post-Processing GOES, GK2A, Himawari, Elektro...
Recently we posted about new updates to the Sanchez software. The updates allow users to combine images received from multiple geostationary weather satellites such as GOES 16/17, Himawari-8, GK-2A and...
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Dictator Alert Fundraising
In the past we've posted about the Dictator Alert project a few times, as it makes use of ADS-B data contributed to ADS-B Exchange via volunteers who typically run an RTL-SDR as part of their ADS-B...
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